Big Ten

Now that Michigan has clinched the regular season Big Ten title and we’ve clinched not making the NCAA tournament, you may hear some talk about neither team having anything to play for tonight when they square off in Ann Arbor.… Continue Reading →

Tom Crean had quite the fifteen minute stretch on Sunday. It was the general sort of sequence that only the genius possess and the insane lament. But before we get to that, let’s take a few minutes to look at… Continue Reading →

I have no interest in telling you a tale. I will not, as Sipowicz so eloquently put it, piss in your ear and tell you it’s raining. That was bad. The loss to Ohio State, at home, on Senior night,… Continue Reading →

This was never the goal. It wasn’t the goal at the beginning of the season. It wasn’t the goal last December. It wasn’t the goal in April, 2008. It was never the goal, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a… Continue Reading →

It’s a good thing I was really busy today. Had I not had one meeting after another and a series of other things that needed to be accomplished in between those meetings I might have found myself writing the obvious… Continue Reading →

There’s a new normal for IU basketball in Big Ten play. During the non-conference season our games were marked by slow starts, big leads, extensions of those leads, wins. But conference play has been a horse of a different color.… Continue Reading →

I promised you more about the Minnesota game and here it is. I was there, in the stands, grinning like Ruprecht the Monkey Boy at the end of the first half. And then the Firecrackers came out and jumped a… Continue Reading →

Let’s get this out of the way up front. I know that everything that has me angry right now is completely meaningless. None of it impacts anything. I can’t even glamour myself into the argument that it’s good because the… Continue Reading →